Key findings:

• The number of recorded male victims of crime incidents of Sexual offences rose by 54% to 869 victims between 2023 and 2024. This increase related mainly to a near doubling of such crime incidents that were reported by males more than a year after the occurrence.
• In seven out of ten (70%) recorded crime incidents of Sexual offences in 2023 that had been detected by 2025, the suspected offender was known to the victim.
• The suspected offender was known to the victim in two-thirds (65%) of crime incidents of Attempts/Threats to Murder, Assaults, Harassments & Related offences in 2023 that were detected by 2025.
• In 2024, three in every ten (30%) victims of crime incidents of Sexual offences reported the incident more than 10 years after it occurred. This was up from 22% in 2023 and 21% in 2022.
• Half (50%) of recorded victims of crime incidents of Sexual offences in 2024 were under 18 years of age at the time of occurrence.
• Seven out of every ten (69%) crime incidents of Harassment & Related offences in 2023 that were detected by 2025 involved a female victim. In most cases, the suspected offender was a male.